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Watch Us Play A VR Game About Musical Cheeseburgers

Rarely do I find a virtual reality game worth the hype, but Playthings, released yesterday, literally takes the cake. I mean literally—there is a lot of cake. Playthings is a tropical island “music playground” for the HTC Vive. In it, players’ instruments are a feast of cheeseburgers, cupcakes, gummy bears and hot dogs, floating around…

Sony Promotes Indie Game Full Of Seemingly Ripped-Off Art And Music

It’s not rare to find clones and ripoff games on Steam or the app store. The video game market is full of asset theft, much to the dismay of hard-working developers everywhere. But how often do you find a ripoff game that’s actively marketed by Sony? Solbrain: Knight of Darkness, a new adventure game that…

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided‘s Most Annoying Quirk

I’ve been enjoying my time in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided so far. While I have no complaints about all the emails I can read and all the toilets I can flush, there’s one thing that has been bugging me about the PC version: the space bar. On keyboard and mouse, the space bar is mapped…

The Division‘s Developers Delay DLC To Focus On Improving Troubled Game

Acknowledging that their game has major problems especially in its endgame, the creators of the once-hot Division said in a livestream today that they will prioritize the release of an October patch to make their game better. “We want to go back to making The Division really fun in the end-game experience,” community developer Hamish…

Stranger Things Adventure Game Tribute Is Just Right

Mixing their love for old school adventure games like King’s Quest with everybody’s love affair with Netflix’s supernatural horror series, the folks atInfamous Quests cooked up a small playable slice of what needs to be a much bigger game. The Stranger Things tribute game is a one-room point-and-click adventure, covering basically a single scene from…

Momentum-based platformer N++ is available on PC today It got us pretty angry (in the good way!) on PS4.

Nendoroid Meta Knight Figure Deserves All The Hugs

So here he is with open arms, hoping you’ll see what your love means to him, Meta Knight. Up for preorder now through September with a release slated for March of 017, Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid version of Kirby’s coolest foe is a little bit of cheating. After all, the Nendoroid series is all about…

Go Set Up Two-Step Verification On Your PlayStation Right Now

This morning, Sony quietly added two-step verification to the PlayStation Network, allowing users to add an extra layer of security to their PS4, PS3, and Vita accounts. Finally. NOW GO DO IT. You can find the option by going to Settings -> PlayStation Network Account Management -> Account Information -> Security -> 2-Step Verification. It…

Hideo Kojima has joined the advisory board of VR firm Prologue Immersive, which was co-founded by longtime Kojima collaborator Kyle Cooper

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Look At This Enormous LEGO Star Destroyer

OliveSeon, a team of Korean LEGO builders, have designed and constructed one of the most impressive Star Wars creations I have ever seen. Via Brothers Brick, their Imperial-class Star Destroyer has some frightening specs. It used around 42,000 bricks, took approximately 1000 hours to build, is 2.2m/7′3″ long and weighs 50kg/110lbs. Most impressive, though, is…

Please, Blizzard, please, give us this as an alternate option for Reaper’s ult in Overwatch. TwistedGrimTV reimagined the bane of your existence and mine with a bit less grimdark edge and a bit more fabulous flash. It really is raining men. Hallelujah.

The Most Interesting Wrestling Promo In Years Happened Last Night

Pro wrestling is an act, as many a helpful Internet commenter will point out below any article about this stuff. It’s staged. It’s scripted. The evil Russian bad guys, it turns out, are often actually Americans. Those of us who are hooked crave the moments when something might be real, when we can’t tell if…

Guy’s Mom Tries To Describe Overwatch Characters Without Knowing Overwatch

The “parents don’t know but they’ll talk about it anyway” gag is not a new one, but it remains a sweet one when the parents do a good job (and aren’t treated like idiots by exploitative kids). Like Karhall’s mom here, who was asked to talk about Overwatch characters without knowing who the hell they…

Kubo and the Two Strings: An absurdly beautiful, hand-made hero’s tale. What it is: The latest from the stop-motion wizards at Laika, whose other films include 2009’s Coraline and 2012’s woefully underrated ParaNorman What I’ve watched: Watched the movie last night. Is it good? Yeah, it’s really cool. A few things kept me from loving…

No Man’s Sky Doesn’t Need To Be ‘The Ultimate Video Game’

If you couldn’t tell by now, No Man’s Sky is not the game a lot of people wanted it to be. But what is that game, exactly? I think we’ve all, at some point or another, wished for The Ultimate Video Game. The idea of a game that caters to everyone with a deft mix…

ToeJam and Earl are coming back next year on PC and console. Here’s a trailer.

Final Fantasy IV Retrospective: Ahead Of Its Time

There’s a scene in Final Fantasy IV that’s always stood out to me. It centers around the elderly wizard Tellah, who starts off with a puny library of magic but eventually, thanks to divine intervention and a magical house of mirrors, remembers that he’s actually a talented badass with access to every spell in the…

Show Us Your Best Pokémon Go Appraisals

This week’s new update to Pokémon Go allows you to ask the game’s team leaders to appraise your Pokémon. A useful feature? We’re not sure. It has led to a lot of penis jokes–so many that that the game’s main subreddit is banning those jokes! Anyway…get any good, bad or funny appraisals? Share them in…

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Sure Has Beautiful Wood

If you asked me how many graphics were in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, my answer would be, “a lot.” If I had to guess, I’d say, like, a hundred? Two hundred? It’s a lot, is the point. This game is often ridiculously good-looking, especially on PC. That’s particularly true when there are no NPCs in…